Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School

Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School is one of the substantial senior highs in Fort Madison, Iowa, overseen by Fort Madison Comm School District, with 852 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 82% bigger than the state mean of about 468.

Fort Madison Comm School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,983 students. Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

On the resource side, On paper, Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lee County) logs that median household income runs about $62,382, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lee County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,014 students), of which Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 63.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fort Madison Junior/Senior High School's enrollment has edged up 50% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 852).

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